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Brother & sister die months apart after buying counterfeit drugs through Snapchat

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Tammy Lyon Gordon, California mom of two loses both teen children to fentanyl drug overdose
Tammy Lyon Gordon, California mom of two loses both teen children to fentanyl drug overdose months apart after buying counterfeit drugs through Snapchat.
Tammy Lyon Gordon, California mom of two loses both teen children to fentanyl drug overdose
Tammy Lyon Gordon, California mom of two loses both teen children to fentanyl drug overdose months apart after buying counterfeit drugs through Snapchat.

Tammy Lyon-Gordon, California mom grieves the loss of her two teen children after they both died from fentanyl drug overdose just months apart from each other after using purchasing counterfeit drugs through Snapchat. 

A California mother has told of her agony following the deaths of her teen daughter and son just months from each other after her 16 year old daughter dying from a fentanyl drug overdose, just ten months after her 18 year old son also succumbing to the same fate after both purchased counterfeit drugs through Snapchat.

Tammy Lyon-Gordon, speaking to KTLA told of having to endure the ‘worst pain possible,’ as she now seeks to warn other families of the pitfalls of buying narcotics through social media.

‘It really is the invisible killer,’ the mom told the outlet. ‘They had no idea they were taking fentanyl. To have them die at home. A place they felt safe haunts me every day.’

‘This never should have happened,’

In 2020, Lyon-Gordon’s 18 year old son, Tyler took what he thought was Percocet after buying it off Snapchat. The drug, however, contained fentanyl and caused the teen to overdose.

But there was more grief ahead.

Tammy’s other child, 16 year old daughter, Jenna died not even a year later after unknowingly taking counterfeit Xanax, which investigators told Lyon-Gordon was pure fentanyl – a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than morphine. 

‘This never should have happened,’ the grieving mother told the outlet. ‘It still doesn’t seem real to me.’

Implores the bereft mother, ‘Speak with your kids about the dangers. Don’t lose them to this drug.’

Tammy said her ‘purpose in life’ was being a mother, and this has now been ‘stolen’ from her due to fentanyl.

Tammy Lyon Gordon, California mom of two loses both teen children to fentanyl drug overdose
Pictured, Tammy Lyon Gordon, California mom’s two children, Jenna and Tyler as toddlers.

Record fentanyl seizures but record fentanyl overdose deaths

Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical drug prescribed for severe pain. However, its illegal use has fueled an epidemic with criminals manufacturing and selling the drug as it’s cheap, easy to produce and highly addictive. 

California has one of the highest rates of fatal overdoses involving fentanyl, with most shipments trafficked into the US from Mexico, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Deputy Special Agent in Charge for the DEA, Anthony Chrysanthis, warns the public of fentanyl’s discrete presence. 

‘This drug that’s coming in from the Cartels is out there, and you need to be careful because if you get your hands on the wrong stuff, you can die,’ Chrysantis told KTLA.

Chrysantis said the DEA are currently seizing record levels of fentanyl, in both pill and powder form.

According to a 2023 report by the National Center for Health Statistics deaths by overdose involving the drug spiked some 279 percent between 2016 and 2023 in the US.

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